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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[after 6 August 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 60
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.
WED has been collecting Lythrum plants. Numerical proportions of the three forms.
Sends specimens of the three forms of Lythrum. Remarks on the numerical proportions of different forms.
Discusses Lythrum, "a really wonderful case"; asks WED to make observations and collect specimens; sends a diagram which shows what crosses he believes are fertile.
Would like George to watch bees visiting the flowers; wants some pods from different forms to compare shapes and count seeds.
Has read CD’s long letter on Lythrum and agrees with it. Is examining the pollen of the different types.